Boxes and Packaging, a part of the Logson Group, is opening a new facility at Thorne Park, Doncaster, England, a few months after a similar move in Swindon. The leased 52,160ft2 unit is part of the 150,000ft2 industrial and warehouse area ...
Tags: packaging, packaging material, packaging carriage, box
Kellogg India is planning to establish a new R&D facility at Taloja, near Mumbai, in the state of Maharashtra. The move is in line with the company's strategy to increase its contribution to parent Kellogg's Asia-Pacific revenues from the ...
Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss is calling on retailers to better label British produce in supermarkets, in a bid to support struggling dairy farmers in the country. The supermarkets in the country may be forced by the government to ...
Global economic growth will be muted over the next two years, Moody's Investors Service has said in a quarterly report. According to the report titled “Global Macro Outlook 2015-16: Risks to muted global growth from Chinese asset ...
Net sales at clothing retailer American Apparel tanked 17.2 per cent year over year for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. In the three months to June 30, 2015, net sales dipped 17.2 per cent to $134.4 million from $162.4 million for ...
Tags: apparel, apparel sale, apparel development
Taiwan makers' shipments of touch panels used in handset and notebook applications are expected to increase 5.9% and 9.6% respectively in the third quarter of 2015, according to Digitimes Research. After increasing 15.2% and 22.4% ...
Tags: touch panels, handset, notebook
Global smartphone unit demand increased 7% in Q1. The sales reached 310 million units, with growth down from 19 percent year-on-year in Q4 2014. For the second quarter of 2015, the actual number of units sold globally amounted to 302.1 ...
Tags: smartphone, 4G smartphone
Egg and turkey prices in the US will surge more than expected this year as a result of the severe bird flu outbreak in the country. Figures released by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) show that over 48 million chickens and turkeys ...
Tags: poultry industry, chicken, Egg
The short-term outlook for biomaterials in coatings and related sectors in Europe has been looking grim in the wake of the fall in the oil price. However companies along the biomaterials value chain in the region are not overtly concerned. ...
Tags: biomaterials, coatings
Exports of readymade garments from Bangladesh registered double-digit decline in the first month of financial year 2015-16, according to the latest government data. In July 2015, Bangladesh earned $2.215 billion in garment exports, ...
Tags: readymade garments, knitwear
The passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would benefit US apparel companies by eliminating textile tariffs between 12 participating countries, says Moody's Investors Service. According to a research paper, the ...
Tags: apparel, footwear, textile tariffs
A new taxation pact between Taiwan and the mainland will save businesses on either side of the Strait billions of New Taiwan dollars a year and provide a powerful boost to the island's revenue, its financial agency said Tuesday. The ...
Tags: dual taxation, new Taiwan dollars
Depreciation of China's currency offers opportunities for economies in Europe Last week's depreciation of the yuan stoked fears that European exports to China could be hit. As the euro and the pound strengthened, concerns started to grow ...
Tags: global currency, Yuan Move
“It is only a matter of time before white LEDs using blue LED chips will disappear from the market,” said Shuji Nakamura at a forum on GaN technology in July organized by Nikkei Asian Review. The comment from the inventor of ...
Tags: LED chip, Blue LED, Purple LEDs
Jurlique has switched to using plastic tube, started lightweighting its glass packaging, and driven a re-use system which saves 1000 shippers a year. PKN reports on the skin care company's latest initiatives. Since the Jurlique brand was ...